Lamont Weekly Report – March 17, 2006

OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
P.O. Box 1000, 61 Route 9W Palisades, New York 10964

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- Letter from the Director

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<>LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR

After entertaining a bevy of OCE and EAR NSF program managers on
Monday - here to talk with Suzanne and Kerstin and their colleagues
about their fast developing data base projects - I spent Wednesday in
Houston, mostly at BP headquarters, where Sarah Huard and I had
excellent discussions with Lamont Alum and Advisory Board member Leon
Thomsen (a Senior geophysicist there). Meredith Nettles' recent
insights into the nature of a magnitude 5.2 event a few weeks ago in
the Gulf of Mexico (just north of the Sigsbee escarpment) attracted
tremendous interest - it seems it was a massive underwater landslide
that occurred close to billions of dollars worth of drilling platforms.

A Senior Staff meeting this afternoon was a stimulating end to the
week!

An important piece of news:

After 13 years as Director of CIESIN, Roberta Balstad has decided to
step down effective May 1st. CIESIN is stronger and more successful
than it has ever been, and Roberta has decided to follow her dream
and relieve herself of administrative responsibilities and focus upon
research. As PI of the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions
(CRED) and co-PI in ADVANCE, she will continue to work with CIESIN
and others on the LDEO campus, but only part-time. So we will still
see her around - it is not really goodbye - but nevertheless,
assuredly it is an excuse for a party.

So, good luck to Roberta, and as I have told her at least twice
already, I am very jealous.

The sun is shining, the sky is blue - have a great weekend,




- Mike






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